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It's shown under talismans but is in reality a bowl shaped divination tool used, I want to say, by the greeks originally, called the "Pergamum Bowl," also associated with the gnostic tradition. There's some confusion as to whether it was actually created by the greeks or the coptics or some other group of people who just drew on those traditions, but both greek and coptic letters are represented there. The outer rings, three rings of eight sections, making 24 outer sections, is pretty typical of that general time period and some time before - three sets of eight letters considered representative of some particular 'peice' of a trinary paradigm, like the three Aets of the runes. The eight inner parts I believe represent planetary powers, but those are typically seven in number so I can't remember if that information is correct or not.
In any case, having the name of the symbol should make it easier to research in full.
peace
edit: p.s. Typically just having any kind of talisman in your possession won't do much harm, if any, unless it was given to you by someone who intended it to work in your life on some level - like, a talisman to do you harm that was slipped into your bag. Just finding an image of a talisman online, in the vast majority of cases is no big deal.
This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: May 29 2007, 07:38 PM
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Talisman, Unknown Talisman (possibly of Solomon
Dec 25 2006, 09:09 PM
